For years, vendors and analysts have foretold a new era when computing would be sold and consumed as a commodity. Are we any closer? Paradigm shifts were easier before the bubble burst. Serious change ...

Utility computing is defined as the technology, tools, and processes that collectively deliver, monitor, and manage IT as a service to users. Among the potential benefits of adopting a utility ...

Utility computing is the latest, greatest and most economical enterprise computing model for the next decade, according to CA, HP, IBM, Sun and Veritas. Now if we could only get them to agree on a ...

Hewlett-Packard next year will take a fresh approach to its utility computing initiative with a product designed to reduce the cost of running corporate computing systems. The company introduced on ...

But while vendors and integrators have long touted the virtues of utility computing, CIOs and end-user companies have taken a cautious approach to a full-scale IT utility. Although some have rolled ...

Many of the major players have outlined utility computing strategies that are very platform-specific, how do I go about gaining the benefits in a heterogeneous data center environment? – David, Tempe, ...

COMMENTARY--Almost two-thirds of companies have little or no strategic IT planning. That was the troubling conclusion of a recent survey conducted by analyst CSC, which also showed that only 7 percent ...

Utility computing may be one of the hottest topics in the technology industry these days, but there is much work to be done before it will ever achieve widespread acceptance, a panel of industry ...

update Hewlett-Packard announces several new hardware and software products that expand the utility computing idea for servers and extend the technology to printers and PCs. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Industry executives respond to Nicholas G. Carr's contention that utility computing will evolve in much the same way electricity did a century ago. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

The combination of edge computing and 5G networks is enabling utilities to manage data more effectively and shrink decision-making and response times, while also reducing the burden on centralized ...